What You Don’t Hear on Those Discovery Channel Mini-Series

Had I sat on the edge of your plate and stared while you devoured your bourgeois cheeseburger, I suspect my prying eyes would’ve been met with copious amounts of table salt! Yet here you perch, narrating my every bite. You sir, are the despicable slime!

Well, it looks cute now – but there’s nothing in the picture for scale…
nothing to tell you that these things can get to be _nearly ten frakkin’ inches long!_
Not that cute when you see one of those things crashing through the underbrush, let me tell you 🙂

My son, who is now 8, hates slugs. He might like this one…probably not. When he was just walking he saw one on the ground near door. He had a sharp eye it wasnt very big I can remember his little finger pointing it out for me to move. Was very funny but not to him.
Ive never seen one of these.

@ Killer Klown “crashing thru the underbrush”…I snorted loudly at my desk, making all my co-workers give me the stinkeye (our office is very quiet). I saw it happen in my head, and for unknown reasons, the slug reared back its mustachio-d head and roared like a lion.

“crashing through the underbrush”………makes me laugh out loud…..co-worker wanted to know what was wrong with me……couldn’t answer ’cause I was laughing so hard……but thoughts of “giant” ones kinda flips me out….oh well…..picture is amazing, look at the tiny plant infront of the slug!

My son went to a camp here in WA when he was in elementary school. They were gone for 3 days. The highlight of the whole experience was getting to lick a banana slug. Apparently (and I’ll have to take his word for it) it makes your tongue go numb. Now, funny part is- the teacher would only let a couple of kids lick the slug before letting it go because IT MIGHT INJURE THE SLUG!!

Very pretty indeed in the picture, a bit faint-making in the video. I thought the huge, albino slug that had obviously hatched in my compost bin was big, but this one takes the biscuuit (and a t that size, he could if he wanted to).

I salted a slug many years ago, and will never do so again. It was horrible. My karma is now tainted for eternity! I put them into my compost bin, along with the snails – Hon Glad, do you think this is a good idea?

Bookmonstercats, Yes and no. Yes they will help turn your veg and plant waste into compost. No they probably won’t be content to stay inside the bin, and will go out on raiding parties. However, if you have got a smart purpose made bin with a lid, and not a rickety thing made of old pallets,with a bit of old carpet over it like me, you should be OK.

PS On our TV garden programme, they say there is no point throwing them over next doors fence, as they will probably make their way back, especially if you have got Hostas (Slug/Snails favourite).